Due to their advantages for the industrial market, Hope Industrial Systems’ products have always used resistive touch screen sensors from Elo TouchSystems , which support single-touch recognition. While many of the advanced touch features we have come to love in our smart phones require a “multi-touch” technology (like pinch-to-zoom), the recent release of a new series of drivers from Elo now allows some of these features to work with any Hope Industrial Touch Screen.

Elo provides the driver in the support section of their website under the “Windows 7 Multitouch” section. Although the listed notes for the driver mention that an IntelliTouch monitor is required, we have done extensive testing and found it to be compatible with our AccuTouch-enabled (resistive) Elo touch screens. (more…)